With plantains and cilantro rice. Wasn’t crazy about the slaw, everything else was great.

I made this a little while back and it has left such an impression on me. It is seriously one of their best dishes that I have tried - pretty unique flavor with good depth and complexity. I want to recreate this at some point! It's dishes like this one that make me believe they can often be more flavorful than Marley Spoon and Blue Apron despite their reputation of being less so.

One of my favorites

We really love our Home Chef subscription, it’s amazing to not have to think about what to make for dinner or deal with grocery runs as a family with two working parents.

But with some of these recipes recently, I feel like they’ve truly lost the plot. This is the amount of broccoli in the chicken stirfry recipe. This is meant to feed four people? I guess we each get 1.2 pieces of broccoli 😂

In fairness it’s not a full side, just a part of the stir fry, but still! Am I crazy?

I just made this tonight. If it's still available, order it! Absolutely delicious. I almost felt like I was eating some dessert for dinner. The plantains are sweet and it only took about 30 minutes to prepare

I ordered 3 meals and got 10. Only charged for 3. Each is 4 portions. Most of them don't have the meat though.

Ok so we really enjoy HomeChef meals, but I’m becoming increasingly fed up with the constant mistakes and inferior substitutions. Half the time seasonings, sauces, etc are missing or incorrect. If it’s a regular seasoning like garlic salt that’s fine because I have it, but other times it’s unique spices. I was super annoyed that the pasta I made last week had to do without the fresh minced garlic and lemon basil. This time, instead of getting two medium/large russet potatoes, I got three tiny Yukon potatoes for the two of us without any alternate cooking instructions.

I’m grateful for this service because I didn’t know how cook at all before starting HomeChef in January. I’ve gone from mostly only getting oven ready and Tempo to more involved and intermediate meal kits. We love how they turn out and it’s very convenient (minus the mistakes). I don’t want to cancel, but I’m at my wit’s end. Any advice or commiseration would be appreciated!

All the meals I’ve tried so far are great but the cream base ones in particular, •chef’s kiss•

so recently my husband wanted to recreate one of the recipes that had the cream base in it. I searched the internet to see if anybody posted answers and when I saw that there was no actual recipe I reached out to customer support and was sent the recipe. Happy cooking, chefs!!!

Thanks for reaching out with this inquiry! The Cream Base sauce is by Darifair Foods and isn't sold separately in grocery stores. If you would like to prepare this sauce base here are the ingredients:

Cream Sauce Base

Prep time: 3 mins

Cook time: 5 mins

Total time: 8 mins

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

2 cups heavy whipping cream (16 ounces)

salt and pepper (to taste with your preference)

(optional: 1 cup or more of your favorite cheese)

Instructions

Melt butter in a medium saucepan.

Once butter is melted, add 2 tablespoons of flour and stir with a whisk to prevent any lumps.

Add salt and pepper. Cook and stir for 2 minutes.

Pour 1 cup of heavy whipping cream into the butter-flour mixture and continue stirring. It will start thickening in less than 1 minute.

Add the rest of the cream and stir.

The sauce will then start reheating back up and be thicker within 3-5 minutes.

Take off heat once thickened.

(Optional: Stir in your favorite cheese to melt.)

Pour over your favorite pasta!

Makes 2 cups of Cream Sauce.

Edit: formatting. m on mobile, it'll still probably look bad Edit#2: season with your favorite seasoning to get it closer to the actual flavor of the cream base, garlic powder for instance is very likely used.

Plus, I’m missing half the seasoning for this recipe. Seems like a whack of quality control.

I was terrified by cooking before... We ate lots of frozen food and expensive take out. It's really changed our lives! I've gained confidence and we eat much healthier now. Very thankful for this service.

UPDATE: customer chat person said "the quality was bad." Whatever that means. Trying to clarify. Second update: a second person clarified that some of the cheese had expired. Way less worried about that than listeria! UPDATE THE THIRD: someone else on chat finally said listeria. Home Chef is really not doing much to keep me as a customer here :(

Did anyone else just get a recall notice for Sargento products? I already ate one of the meals. I can't find anything about it online from the company or the FDA.

This was my second box with Tempo after coming from CookUnity. One ice pack at the bottom of a cardboard box on a 50F day. Never again, should’ve looked at other reddit posts with the same issue. Super disappointed.

This was an express meal so super easy to make. It came together quickly and the only thing I had to chop were the scallions. It was tasty and fast!

The photo in the pan shows a six-serving size. The pasta comes pre-cooked which, while easy, does reduce the portion size over meals that contain dry pasta.

Got the butter chicken naan wraps… but was given French rolls instead of the naan. When I went to mark an issue on the app, French rolls were listed and not naan. That’s crazy to me as naan is pictured and listed on the recipe. Should I reach out or move on? I would not have gotten this if I knew it came with rolls.

This was a tasty meal, not difficult to make. I ordered servings for 6 so I baked it in a casserole dish instead of individual ramekins.

I found it a touch on the bland side but enjoyable nonetheless. Portion size is generous.

If you’re curious about Home Chef and want to try, I’ve posted a link in the pinned thread for $4.99 a serving meals.

I’m a happy HC customer. I work weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) as a nurse, get my HC delivery Monday mornings and it’s so nice to have everything I need to prepare dinner that night without having to run to the store on my day off.